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[N_LaRUE]

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Since we're talking computers.


First - Commador Pet (didn't own it was at school, late 70s) Wopping 4k RAM and 5 1/4" floppy disk
Second - Timex Sinclair 1982 2k RAM, tape drive
Third - Atari ST (around 1985) I think I had 512kb RAM, 3 1/2" floppy
Fourth - IBM (yes an actual IBM) 486SX (around 95?)

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Does anybody know if vacuum tube �� (wow new emoji?) computers still exist? Any museum,or anywhere? Just curious

Yes, in the UK - The National Museum of Computing | Home to The First Electronic Computers

They also have some at the Science Museum I think.

 

[SlingLaker9811]

Yes, in the UK - The National Museum of Computing | Home to The First Electronic Computers

They also have some at the Science Museum I think.

Thank you! Wow look at the size of these computers...Seems Semiconductors really made PCs smaller. Thanks to the person who invented the technology!(Was it Tesla? IDTS, I'll search on wiki when I'm home .)

 

[Chregu]

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I'm still amazed that Knights Of The Old Republic looks as good on the iPad Air as it did on my gaming computer back in the times. Technology, it's progressing.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Thank you! Wow look at the size of these computers...Seems Semiconductors really made PCs smaller. Thanks to the person who invented the technology!(Was it Tesla? IDTS, I'll search on wiki when I'm home ��.)

It's more progressive rather than a single invention. It appears Bell Labs was the ones who got transistors (what CPUs are made of) going using them for amplification.

 

[altafmahmood]

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It's more progressive rather than a single invention. It appears Bell Labs was the ones who got transistors (what CPUs are made of) going using them for amplification.

Actually I know the first transistor was made in bell laboratories by William shockley, bardeen and brattain

 

[sahib lopez]

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I'm still amazed that Knights Of The Old Republic looks as good on the iPad Air as it did on my gaming computer back in the times. Technology, it's progressing.

now all we need is holographic stuff

 

[altafmahmood]

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Still the progress was exponential after that continuing till today

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Actually I know the first transistor was made in bell laboratories by William shockley, bardeen and brattain

There were other inventions leading up to it was what I was implying. The idea that you can get a voltage across silicon, etc. It wasn't like they went, poof, here's a transistor.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Still the progress was exponential after that continuing till today

Transistor was important but obviously the IC was the catalyst. Without that there would be no computers.

 

[Chregu]

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now all we need is holographic stuff

This will be even a harder sell than this 3D gesture stuff rumored for the next high-end Windows Phone device...

 

[N_LaRUE]

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This will be even a harder sell than this 3D gesture stuff rumored for the next high-end Windows Phone device...

People were playing around with holographs in the 90s/2000s. Funny how that has sort of drifted like virtual reality.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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People were playing around with holographs in the 90s/2000s. Funny how that has sort of drifted like virtual reality.

The tech wasn't good enough back then to keep up with the novel nature of the idea.

 

[altafmahmood]

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There were other inventions leading up to it was what I was implying. The idea that you can get a voltage across silicon, etc. It wasn't like they went, poof, here's a transistor.

Yes very often it the guy who is famous or at the top rank gets all the credits. Still being an engineer I can say that there is a certain satisfaction in doing things and innovating. The awards and honour parts don't bother me.

 

[sahib lopez]

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or better yet... better battery life

 

[altafmahmood]

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or better yet... better battery life

If it doesn't get better with updated then what is the use of updating it?

 

[altafmahmood]

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The tech wasn't good enough back then to keep up with the novel nature of the idea.

I think Holographic technique is quite good nowadays with those real life projections. In India this technology was used by our current prime minister to address rally in different started at the same time

 

[Chregu]

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I think Holographic technique is quite good nowadays with those real life projections. In India this technology was used by our current prime minister to address rally in different started at the same time

I just had a look at the Wikipedia article about holograms. I don't understand them, but I am pretty sure there's no application like in science fictions.

Many of the "holograms" in current American TV news programs and shows were just inserted computer animations.

 

[sahib lopez]

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yup I think I ate a lot

 

[sahib lopez]

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Wow today was a very serious thread about computers and cellphone and mote computers


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